![]() ![]() Kaikeyi has no trouble carrying this story. At Ayodhya, the capital of Kosala, Kaikeyi befriends her husband’s other wives, and the three women begin implementing social, political, and cultural reformations throughout the kingdom. Patel portrays Kaikeyi’s life leading up to Rama’s exile: she grows up with seven brothers in the kingdom of Kekeya and is particularly close with her twin, Yudhajit, and she trains in the art of war prior to her marriage to Dasharath. Kaikeyi retells events from the Ramayana from the perspective of Kaikeyi, one of the wives of King Dasharath of Kosala, who sends her stepson Rama into exile so her son Bharata can take the throne. I loved it and will be recommending widely. This is not a competent but inferior imitation of Circe this is a rich and fully-realized novel in its own right, filled with characters and relationships which are complex, dynamic, and engaging. ![]() ![]() Kaikeyi, a refreshing departure from the Western locus from which most of these myths originate, is the first that I’ve read-and mind you, I haven’t read them all-that has challenged Madeline Miller’s crown. I received an ARC of Kaikeyi from Redhook Books in exchange for an honest review.Ĭirce is the book that launched a thousand female-forward retellings of ancient stories: The Silence of the Girls, A Thousand Ships, The Witch’s Heart, Ariadne, and seemingly countless others. ![]()
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